Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
THOMAS CARLYLEA person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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